Subject: Re: ARM ELF toolchain patches
To: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/22/2001 01:07:32
> Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:10:29PM +0000, Ben Harris wrote:
> >>
> >> If people want to make any more changes to the ABI (8-byte alignment of
> >> int64_t?), now's the time to mention it.
> >
> >Are you, or are you not, using the same ABI that ARM Ltd. and/or Linux
> >are using?
> 
> Well, he can't be using both.  The main difference is that the Linux ABI has 
> -mstructure-size-boundary-32, and the ARM ABI has -mstructure-size-boundary=8 
> (or the equivalent, anyway).  I'd suggest that NetBSD should use the latter.

This may be one of the things that changed (it certainly used to be 32).  
I'll try and find out why.

R.